Enumerating devices and hardware conf from userland

[victor cruceru]

See:
man 3 devinfo
and
man 3 devstat

Hope this helps,
victor cruceru


On 8/24/05, kylin <fierykylin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >I'm developping a tool running in userland (root) (a command line
> >tools) for enumerating all devices present on the machine :
> 
> >This tool must scan all hardware buses : pci, but usb, firewire, ide,
> >etc.... and retreive devices states : configure, not configured, handle
> >by a driver, not handle by a driver, witch modules is the driver.
> >And I want to have all devices present inside a machine.
> 
> 
> >In some recent Kernel, there is a way from userland, to take a handle
> >from the root hardware tree, enumeratiing first buses, and under buses,
> >witch device are connect to those buses. This is is what I am looking
> >for.
> do u just need the read function on the sysctl or do something from
> the deep end into kernel ?
> does http://www.magnicomp.com/cgi-bin/mcdownload.cgi really help？
> 
> 
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